1. UNCTAD Building Capacity for Improved Policy Making and Negotiation on Key Trade and Environment Issues Inter-regional Consultative Meeting Geneva, 30 September – 1 October 2002 Presentation by Paul STEELE DFID

2. Poverty reduction, trade & environment: DFID’s approach Poverty reduction and trade Poverty reduction and the environment Poverty, trade and environment interface DFID’s approach to trade DFID’s approach to trade capacity building Existing DFID trade capacity building Our interest in this project Our interest in this workshop

3. Poverty reduction and trade DFID’s main aim is poverty reduction to achieve Millennium Development Goals Trade helps poor countries grow (eg access to industrial country markets) Growth is important for poverty reduction Benefits to the poor from trade can be increased (eg by improving their ability to produce for export)

4. Poverty reduction and the environment Environmental management matters to poor people: health, livelihoods, vulnerability Environmental factors cause up to one fifth of disease in poor countries Poor people most dependent on environmental resources for livelihoods Poor vulnerable to climate related disasters and environmental conflict (eg timber, oil)

5. Poverty, environment and trade interface Environment goods important for poor affected by trade (eg fisheries, biodiversity) Traded goods important for poor & growth affected by international environment policy: (eg SPS, ecolabelling, trade preferences for environment goods/services) Traded goods important for poor affected by developing country environment policies (eg GMOs)

6. DFID’s approach to trade Trade negotiations and international policy DFID objectives to make Doha Round support Poverty Reduction UK trade policy decided by EU: DFID input into UK govt & EU position (eg EBA, CAP) Intellectual property rights (recent report) Country & regional support with others Support developing countries increase exports and poor gain from trade (trade negotiations, regional trade liberalisation, integrate trade in other processes and increase poor’s ability to produce goods for export)

7. DFID’s approach to trade capacity building Developing countries must be in charge Key stakeholders involved: govt in country, govt negotiators, private sector, civil society Lead to real change that continues beyond the life of the project Build on existing capacity building work with better coordination (eg DFID, UNCTAD, WTO, World Bank, UNEP)

8. DFID trade capacity building involvement African capacity building project Other country work(eg Ghana, South Africa, Bangladesh) Support for Integrated Framework Support for capacity building by UNCTAD,WTO,World Bank etc Trade-environment work : earlier phase of UNCTAD/FIELD work, work with IIED

9. DFID interest in this project Reduce poverty by addressing issues of poverty, trade and environment Lead to real change in-country Improve outcomes of Doha negotiations Improve regional consensus on trade-env(eg EAC) Bring trade, environment, private sector together Bring Geneva negotiators and country decision makers together Integrate environment into ongoing trade capacity projects and ongoing DFID work

10. DFID interest in this workshop We want to listen to you DFID has funded design phase of this project – now decide with you how best to proceed Substance: hear from you what issues you want to address in the project Process: hear from you how to organise project (eg coordinating country and partner countries) *Also improve DFID’s approach to poverty, trade and environment